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This helpful guide for patients describes ways to manage the more common side effects of interferon treatment. It covers fatigue, aches and pains, sleep, depression, irritability, nausea, loss of appetite, dry skin, and thinning hair. The guide also features quotes from veterans with hepatitis C who have undergone interferon treatment.

This patient handbook explains basic facts about the liver and the liver disease cirrhosis. It answers patients' questions about common complications of cirrhosis and what can be done about them, gives important information about the most serious emergencies in cirrhosis, and offers tips for keeping the liver healthy.